Lawmakers Believe Dubai Company Used Iran as Route to Ship Goods to Afghanistan

WASHINGTON—Two U.S. senators have requested that the Pentagon's inspector general broadly investigate a contract awarded to a Dubai company that the lawmakers believe may have violated U.S. sanctions by using Iran as a route to ship goods to Afghanistan.

Republican Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire said in a letter to the inspector general that Anham FZCO also may have conducted business with a port operator owned by Iran's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The...